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Re: a little problem



On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 05:43, Sameer Ali <nasirmtn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Tor Friends,
> I am new in TOR and try to understand its published paper. I have one
> question, "Why TOR use fixed-size cell"... is there any reason for security
> or something else?

If I'm not mistaken, fixed size cells helps against traffic analysis
because your data is indistinguishable from anyone's else data.

> I have tried to search this question from the literature but failed to find
> it.
>
> Thanks for your help...
>
> regards
> Nasir
>
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